Love the vibe in this comment section 🤙🏻
its not about the wellbeing of our society, its about being in control. by force
If poors stop doing crime and cops can’t arrest the poors then who will give profit prisons free labor??
They’ll just invent new crimes. Like loitering, jaywalking, and using an open-source operating system that doesn’t forward your identity and details of your computer usage to governments and private companies.
The prisons are not gonna fill themselves
Trump and immigrants.
At this rate Trump will be senile before going to prison for his crimes.
It’ll be poc and gsm, we’re already building and filling those camps.
The purpose of cops is not to reduce crime.
Well, part of their purpose is to reduce crime, but only crime against very rich people.
And their stuff. Can’t let anything happen to their stuff
The brainwash is leaking out your ears.
No no no, that’s socialism! Which people have learned is bad… Because, empathy is toxic!
Cops are mainly to suppress anybody who doesn’t go along with the will of the powerful.
They don’t exist to reduce harm to the many, they exist to protect the assets of the Owner class, which is why in Law property “crime” is usually more severely punished than anything but murder and why cops are vastly more speedy at investigating and prosecuting “crimes” committed against the Owner class or their Assets than they are when it’s the riff-raff that suffers.
They’re minions to a handful of people, not servants of the public.
Ahh but you see, blaming the poor for all the problems is great they can’t effectively fight back and if they do, it’s super easy to fearmonger about the riots of ‘those people’
Gotta keep em separated…
Show me the science Jerry!
SHOW ME THE SCIENCE!!
A 32-hour, 4-day work week can be more productive than a traditional 40-hour, 5-day schedule, particularly for roles that require cognitive engagement beyond routine production line tasks.
There are studies that prove this. It also reduces sick days. Does anyone care? No, let’s ignore science because it feels like it’s more productive to force productivity.
I was going to mention the same thing. The recent AI craze and productivity studies are another similar thing. Same with return-to-office. Our rulers (the owner class) put power and cruelty over rationality.
Yeah one of the biggest learnings for me over my career is that people are hard-wired for stories. It doesn’t matter how good an engineer/scientist you are, how well explained or robust the logic/study is, etc. People only respond to how things make them feel - we are emotional beings with the ability to rationalize, not the other way around.
AgE oF sCIence aND prOgREss
Homeless people cost tax payers between 30-50 thousand dollars a year. Housing the homeless is likely fiscally conservative.
This means the incentive structure in our society is wrong. People who lack the creativity to solve novel problems resort to psychopathy to to be productive in the economy. Military industrial complex, private prisons, judge judy.
People have been told all their lives that money can’t buy happiness and now science is proving that it very much can so I imagine there is a bit of cognitive dissonance.
There is a difference between “having enough money prevents people from turning to crime to survive and meet their basic needs” and “having more money allows you to buy more happiness, even if your basic needs have long since been met.”
Yeah, well, science also says Twitter is an information black hole, and few that need to see this will see it.
I know it’s microblog memes, but still. It’s surprising to me how much scientist believers post about the state of the world… on Twitter. It’d be like going into a Nazi bar in Berlin to warn about the Holocaust, or to criticize Catholicism in the Vatican, and thinking you’re somehow in an open forum.
…At least it isn’t a blue checkmart Tweeter, though.
Sane people do stuff for a reason. Remove the reason, remove the action they would take.
Like for example remove pay and any sane person will stop working.
Basic needs, I.E food, water, shelter, and healthcare should be seen as rights, but past that is wants, and people will work for what they want.
In our current system we provide all of those needs, and fund it with by taxes for the people in prison, but not the innocent and poor.
Do you think that anybody who does volunteer work is insane?
If it’s their work - yes. If someone profits from that - hell yes.
Hobbies don’t need to be paid, but work should.
Pay doesn’t have to be monetary. Would you do volunteer work for building a billionaires next house? Volunteer at Amazon to pack boxes? The pay for volunteering is a satisfaction that you are doing the “right thing” and helping people/communities in need.
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